Andreas Möller

Möller began his career at BSC Schwarz-Weiß 1919 Frankfurt and moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1981.

Andreas Möller (born 2 September 1967) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

He is the head of the youth department at Eintracht Frankfurt.

From 1985 to 2004 he played as a midfielder in 429 Bundesliga games (110 goals) for Eintracht Frankfurt, Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04, in between also in Serie A for Juventus F.C..

He is a World champion, European champion, World Cup and Champions League winner, UEFA Cup winner, multiple German champion and DFB Cup winner for club and country.

At club level, Möller played for Eintracht Frankfurt (1985–87, 1990–92, 2003–04), Borussia Dortmund (1988–90, 1994–2000), Juventus (1992–94), and Schalke 04 (2000–03).

In 1985 the midfielder won the German A-Youth Championship and in the same year he joined the first-team squad, venturing into professional football.

He played his first game in Germany's highest football class on the last day of the 1985–86 season in the 0-1 defeat on 26 April 1986 against Hamburger SV.

In the following season he came up with 22 missions.

He played more and more into the team structure and on Matchday 5 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern he scored his first professional goal in league play when he converted a penalty kick to make it 1-2; it was his only goal of the season.

In the 1987–88 season, the youngster, who was good at dribbling, developed into a top performer.

In his first game of the season on matchday 5 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Möller scored twice.

On the 26th day of the 1987–88 season, against his future employer, FC Schalke 04, Möller received his first and only red card, but only had to sit out one game.

On 17 February 1988, Möller made his debut for Borussia Dortmund, scoring the opening goal against VfL Bochum in the 42nd minute at home; however, the game ended in a 2-1 defeat for the Black and Yellows, despite BVB leading 1-0 up until the 88th minute.

In the 1988–89 DFB Cup season, Möller advanced to the final with his team.

There he met SV Werder Bremen.

After a clear 4–1 win against the North Germans, his won his first national title during his first spell with the club.

He also won the DFL-Supercup with Dortmund in the beginning of the 1989–90 season, where he scored the title-deciding goal in the 88th minute of the final match against Bayern Munich.

Möller was a top performer at Borussia but returned to Frankfurt in the summer of 1990.

In the first year after his return, he scored 16 goals in the Bundesliga, setting a personal record that he would not surpass until the end of his career.

In the 1991–92 season he missed out on winning the title with Frankfurt on the final day.

The season was overshadowed by disputes within the team.

Möller was a frequent target of keeper Uli Stein, on the one hand because of his inconsistency, on the other hand because of the many special contractual conditions.

Möller also wanted to play for Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1992–93 season.

However, he had promised the Serie A club Juventus an option right for DM 1.3 million, which the club redeemed in March 1992.

The Turin side had resold this option right to Atalanta B.C., whom Möller would have had to join if Juventus F.C. had not exercised the option themselves.

FIFA had to provide clarification: Möller was bound by the option and had to move to Italy on 1 July 1992, for which he had to buy himself out of his contract with Eintracht Frankfurt for DM 5 million.

After moving to Italian side Juventus, he won the UEFA Cup in 1993, beating out his former club, Borussia Dortmund, 6–1 on aggregate, with Möller scoring one of the goals and providing three assists across both legs of the final.

Despite performing well at Juventus, Möller decided to return to Germany in the summer of 1994 and signed for Borussia Dortmund for the second time.

Upon his return to Dortmund, he won several domestic titles with the club, including consecutive Bundesliga titles in 1995 and 1996.

He stayed with the ball game club for a total of six years, scored goals regularly and had the corresponding deployment times.

Especially in the championship years 1995 and 1996, Möller showed his class as a playmaker, creator, and scorer.

He was considered one of the most prolific midfielders at the time.

During this time, however, there was also controversy and debate surrounding Möller, after he feigned a foul inside the opposing box in a game against Karlsruher SC on 13 April 1995, when BVB had been trailing 0–1.

The then wrongly awarded penalty led to the equalising goal (1–1), with the final score ending in an eventual 2–1 win for Dortmund.

Möller tried to justify his Schwalbe (a word used for a dive in German football jargon, literally meaning "swallow" in Germany) and attacked the KSC coach at the time, Winfried Schäfer.

Möller was sentenced to a two-game ban and a fine of DM 10,000 by the DFB sports court.

He was the first player to be banned by the DFB because of a dive.

His greatest success at club level came in the 1996–97 Champions League: in the final at Munich's Olympic Stadium on 28 May 1997, he once again beating his former team, Turin side Juventus on this occasion, with a 3–1 victory, providing two assists during the match, while his corner also led to the opening goal.

He followed up the victory with the Intercontinental Cup later that year, after which he was named Man of the Match.